[UCLA-LUG] X is hanging

[Luis]

Todd Lyons wrote:

> Luis wrote:
>
> > > run 'startx', I get the grey screen and the little X, but nothing
> > You get the grey screen when you are having trouble with your video
>
> He gets the grey screen with the little x so it seems that the video is
> working fine.  It's something else that's hanging.  I'd bet money that
> if he looks in /etc/X11/XF86Config and finds the section:
>
> Section "Pointer"
>     Protocol    "Microsoft"
>     Device      "/dev/mouse"
>
> and modifies it to something other than what he has in there currently,
> X will stop hanging.  That doesn't mean that the mouse will WORK, it
> just means that the mouse driver won't hang.
>
> During this run of reconfiguring stuff, did he change any network
> information?  I doubt it since network problems usually manifest
> themselves as a blank screen (it never displays the grey screen with the
> x), but it's worth asking.  In other words, did he change ANYTHING else?
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Thank's right Todd, my mistake ;-(


Luis